It’s cold outside and the track is really cold so we decided to wait a bit before we made the first hit, and just when we decided to warm up the car it started to drizzle a bit, so right now we are just waiting for the rain to stop and track to get ready again…
Ready, just waiting…
It’s pretty cold but also early in the morning, the weather forecast looks good for the day, guess we will be out for a test pass in about 2-3 hours.
But it would be good with some sun 🙂
But first some delicious breakfast! 😀
At least for today! 😀
You got a bit scared now, right?? 😉 We were just about to fire up the car and make the first test pass around 8:00 and they told us that they decided to cancel for the day just a couple of minutes earlier… The thing is that we took really good time to adjust belts, neck device, and some other stuff because when we asked earlier during the day they said that they might keep the track open to 10:00, don’t know if it was that the track got really cold later on the evening.
Really disappointing to get this in front of you when you are sitting in the car more than ready to go down the track…. Well, we are more than ready for tomorrow that’s for sure! 🙂
Warmed up, all stuff checked trough and we will go out for first test round in a little while.
Really late last night after a trip trough snow and rain me, dad, Patrik and Max arrived to the track here at Malmö Raceway and today we woke up to a cold but sunny Malmö! 😀
The track looks really good and they open it at 3, guess we will go out on our first test pass around 5-6 somewhere, we need to set up our pit and we also got some small stuff to do on the car, no big stuff but it’s the small changes that makes it! 😉
Some breakfast and then it’s time to unload the car.
Patrik did borrow this monkey bike for the event, if you ask me this is the coolest push vehicle ever!! 😀
After about 20 hours a day the past 2 weeks working on the Chevelle it’s all done except for some tuning stuff! 🙂
So about 2 hours ago we left the ÅBM shop and are heading for Malmö Raceway, but the weather is a bit strange…
Started out really good!
But after about an hour on the road the weather we got earlier this morning at the shop came back..! Snow…!?
Anyway, below is some work pictures from the past week.
Rear suspension changes are made that I really look forward to see what the do to the car!..
New shoes to the lady 😉
Everything here in the front is all done!
The view is pretty sick!! I love it!! 😀
Got some new sponsor decals on the body!
She’s all done! Hope she will treat us well this coming weekend! 😉
Loaded up and ready to hit the road!
Last weekend was a good one, made a huge progress and we also fired up the newly built motor! 😀
The Chevelle is really close to be done after a long weekend in the shop!
Made in Sweden!!!
Awesome stuff made by awesome people! A huge thanks to Jocke and Micke Månsson for drawing and and machining out a stronger and for sure better looking snout and front cover to our blower! Swedish made parts in Swedish Alumec aluminum!!
Awesome, really naaeees! I like a lot!! 😉
Fabricating blower drive parts and oil pump mountings.
I was looking for one cable in the electrical system and got tired of the mess so I cut it all out and made everything new instead! 🙂
Ended up really clean!
Fuel pump update! 😉
Blower drive all complete!
We got oil pressure!
Motor warmed up and sounds just awesome after the updates we made on it!! 😀
In the end of last week I got parts I been waiting for the last couple of weeks so FINALLY it was time to start working on the race car to get it ready for the test and our first outing in 2016 at Malmö Raceway 29/4-1/5! It is a lot of work left to do and I need to order some missing parts but we did have a really good working weekend on it and that feels really good!!
Me dad and Max got a lot of stuff done, we started out with almost nothing and ended up with a car that is 80 percent complete again! 😀
Finally, parts to the car!!
Doing some special stuff, just like always! 😉
Just standing here, waiting for the last parts to arrive…
Changing guide liners and cutting seats.
All done and have got all new parts in them!
Åke torquing the heads.
Looking good!!
Hey you, it’s time to wake up now!
Transmissions all done!
Doing some special stuff on the Bruno unit! 😉
Some good to have parts from our new partner Neal Chance Racing Converters! 🙂
Our new NSX billet converter is controlled and assembled again.
Cutting down the stands to make enough clerance in the oil pump.
Third member is back in and the whole rear suspension is checked trough.
Max did put on new tires on the wheels.
Max are cleaning the chassis.
Transmission and converter are back in the car again.
Motor back in also, feels really good that we got this far on just a couple of days! Now I just need to do some stuff so I can order the last parts from USA get them in the car and after that rebuild the whole electrical system in the… So it is 2 crazy weeks I got in front of me, that’s for sure..!! 😉
Stay tuned!
/Andreas
